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Harry Potter – Actors and Movies:
• Happy Birthday, Maggie Smith (Minerva McGonagall): Birthdays, Films, News.
• Toby Jones (Dobby) and Dawn French (the Fat Lady) visit 'Cursed Child' play in London.
• Gary Oldman (Sirius Black) talks Churchill and World War II drama 'Darkest Hour'. (interview)

Fantastic Beasts – Actors and Movies:
• Jude Law (young Albus Dumbledore): Happy Birthday!
• Eddie Redmayne (Newt Scamander) reads Christmas bedtime story.
• 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald': new promo reveals reunited Newt and Tina.
• Empire releases new photo of Newt and Tina and the synopsis of the second Fantastic Beasts movie.
• 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald': new promotional still of Grindelwald in Paris.
• 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald': Dumbledore at Hogwarts teaser photos.

Communities:
• snapecase announced that 2018 Snapecase will start on Severus Snape's birthday, January 9, 2018.
• one_bad_man posted the weekly Sign-up post for reccers. (Monday and Thursday are still open at time of posting.)
• podfic_love posted Happily Saying Goodbye to 2017 and a call for podfic reccers for the first half of 2018. (all fandoms)

Masterlists and Weekly Round-ups:
• snape_potter posted the Secret Snarry Swap: Anonymous Masterlist.

Hot Rec:
• Adventures in Solitude (Are You There, Sirius? It’s Me, Draco) by Anonymous at hd_erised (Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy | NC-17 | 25,216 words)
Summary: Draco is grateful to have had Sirius’ portrait to confide in all those years ago, about his sexuality and unwanted feelings for a classmate named Harry. But when he gets the portrait out of storage after twenty years, the secrets he has kept from Sirius all along come out. Secrets about Draco’s role in the war... and secrets about Harry Potter.
• You open always (petal by petal) by Anonymous at hd_erised (Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy | NC-17 | 65,214 words)
Summary: Harry’s not the kind of person who pays for sex. He really isn’t. Until he is.

Fandom Recs:
• @aibidil recced 2017 Drarry Fics That Changed the World. A thematic rec list of 28 Drarry fic recs, with themes ranging from Race/Ethnicity and PoC Representation to Age to Poly Dynamics and much more (G to NC-17).
• smirkingcat recced Lucius Malfoy/Severus Snape art (PG).
• capitu recced a big-bang sized Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter fic (NC-17).
• capitu recced an even longer Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter fic (NC-17).
• amorette recced Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter art (NC-17).
• amorette recced a Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter long fic (NC-17).
• amorette recced a Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter fic (NC-17).
• nearlyconscious recced a Luna Lovegood/Padma Patil fic (G).
• nearlyconscious recced a Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter fic (G).
• nearlyconscious recced Minerva McGonagall art (G).
• nerakrose recced 1 art and 3 fics: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black; Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter (2); Hugo Weasley/Scorpius Malfoy fic (G to NC-17).

Resources:
• hd_prophet: December 27th and December 28th.

Discussions:
• @iguanastevens wrote Feedback culture is dead, long live feedback culture – AO3, fanfiction, and comments: the system isn’t working. (includes a link to a google.doc with more in-depth suggestions and discussion)

Essay/Meta:
• Holly wrote President Picquery: A Pessimist's Perspective. (MuggleNet)

General Fandom News:
• Mugglenet's 2017 Year in Review: Two Decades of "Potter" and No Sign of Stopping.

Community Spotlight:
♥ snarry_reader – The Essential Snarry Reader
The Snarry Reader is a general resource for fans of the Snape/Harry pairing. It consists of a series of lists of Snape/Harry fanfiction, fanart, meta and resources. These lists are neither exactly recs list nor comprehensive pairing lists; they are lists of Snarry fic and art the mods have enjoyed. The community started in 2005, the last update was in 2015. Although it is no longer an active community, it is an awesome resource.


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